Whoops. Wrong Trout

Colorado gives new meaning to cutthroat for greenbacks.

It looks like scientists involved in the program to breed and stock endangered Greenback Cutthroat trout in Colorado have been using the wrongfish. A new study claims that for the past 20 years scientists have been using Colorado River cutthroat instead of the Greenback. Nice work, guys

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